There are many different blueprints describing how high-availability can be achieved underneith an OpenStack cloud. At PayPal, we have chosen to utilize some of the common OpenStack best practices as well as introducing common Data Center best practices to bring high availability to the management/control infrastructure within our cloud. Topics Included: Design of our Openstack Control infrastructure Pros and Cons of management and infrastructure racks separate from a compute rack High Availability requirements by component Pros and cons of High Availability choices external to and within the cloud Trade-offs that need to be made now to ensure availability